From: Bob and Carla (bb333@earthlink.net)
Date: 08/18/02-11:21:20 AM Z
Brava Shannon!
Like what you honestly like! Well-put!
Robert
Shannon Stoney wrote:
>
> Judy wrote:
>
> > Seagull turds and peppers have BEEN DONE.... !
>
> Were there turds?
>
> > I don't even mention Weston's photographs of women -- most of whom appear
> > with their legs spread, face-down naked in the sand, screamingly
> > post- or pre-coital, or Tina Modotti-ish weeping. Thanks a bunch.
>
> Oh. The ones I liked were the ones where it was illustrated that it was ok
> not to shave your legs.
>
> > Still and however, I don't know why Shannon feels "guilty" of all things
> > for liking the senusal pleasure she finds in the work, as she describes
> > with some feeling.
>
> Oh, don't worry, I don't! But a lot of people have tried to make me feel
> that way. If I made a photo because I saw something beautiful and said that
> I wanted to show other people how beautiful it was and thereby make them
> feel good, I was told that I wasn't being "critical" enough, whatever that
> means. But I don't care: I still get off on it. This morning I lay in bed
> a long time watching the moving shadows on the wall that leaves were making
> because of sunlight coming through them. (That's really a video subject.)
>
> I like really sensual, really beautiful photographs, and I'm not yet able to
> make them as beautiful as I want them to be, but that quest is discouraged
> in the photographic community I have been hanging out in. However, I'm about
> to change photographic communities, so maybe that will get better.
>
> .> Surely looking for ratification of one's own aesthetic in
> > consensus is self-defeating. In fact aside from noting that you both
> > misinterpret "post-modernism" beyond redemption, I add that the
> > post-modern attitude would be very helpful here... PM says, if you go
> > against the grain, FLAUNT IT !
>
> When PM is the consensus, the only way to go against the grain, and flaunt
> it, is to say how silly it is. Or maybe it's better just to ignore it.
>
> --shannon
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